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DAHO— A nurse at St. Luke Magic Valley Medical Center is facing a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a seven-month-old child who received an adult dose of saline mixed with potassium phosphate.

Wisconsin-Labor Day Weekend, flight nurse Jon Hagen received a call that a vehicle had rolled over on the highway. Hagen immediately flew to the scene along with his partner. The victim was a critically injured man around the same age as Hagen. They rushed him to the closest trauma hospital.

I've been a surgical nurse for longer than many people have been alive. Before I became a surgical nurse I worked in the ICU and the ED. But I found my calling when I began my orientation in the operating room. That was when I realized that I'd always be an operating room nurse because I fell in love with the OR. There are some really cool

If you're trying to figure out what career path you want to take and your head is spinning as you try to decide whether to be a nurse, doctor, teacher, lawyer or fly by the seat of your pants and see what kind of hell you can raise, (the latter is just a joke, don't get any stupid ideas), but this article can help you out.

Nursing is a great career and I love what I do. In my thirty years in this profession, I’ve worked in the emergency room, case management, and palliative care nursing. The latter is where I found my passion; what I was born to do.

With the continuing rise in crime rates, forensic nursing is becoming a popular part of the American judicial system and one of the booming career options. This new form of nursing is one of the newest forms of forensic sciences recognized by the

Nurse educators are very crucial to the field of nursing and are needed at just about every level of practice. They can teach nurses pursuing undergraduate studies as registered nurses (Rn's) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and also those at the advanced level, seeking to play the role of nurse educators, nurse researchers, practice nurses, future nurse leaders and nurse administrators.

The RN specializing in Perioperative Nursing practice performs nursing activities in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of the patients' surgical experience. Based on the Standards and Recommended Practices for Perioperative Nursing -- A.O.R.N.,

Being a traveling nurse has many attractive benefits over regular nursing Firstly, nurses are in demand constantly not only in the US but worldwide. For a nurse that has the desire to travel and earn money, becoming a traveling nurse would be ideal. Of the hospitals and medical facilities rely on traveling nurses to fill roles when staffing levels are lower than normal, but further than that to bring a new level of expertise that may be lacking in the nursing in the

If you've already decided that nursing job is what you want, you've made a fantastic decision. You should know that there are plenty of different nursing specialties, and that there's a tremendous nursing shortage in the U.S. Just like there are different types of doctors, there are different types of nurses. And that is why nursing is such an exciting field. If you get tired of one area, there's always another.

It is more critical than any time before for agencies to hire, train and retained qualified hospice nurses. This has never been as challenging as it is today. Today's hospice is seeing more medically complex patients. This requires nurses to stay current with critical assessment skills. Increasing and changing regulations make documentation more important than ever before to ensure payment and long-term viability for agencies while the change to electronic medical records present a new challenge for some seasoned hospice nurses. Growth of the agency is critical to success yet the increasing number of hospice providers and mandatory reporting of quality measures makes this more challenging.

A pending bill in the state Senate would lift Michigan's requirement that physicians must supervise nurse anesthetist while they administer anesthesia. The bill would allow nurses with advanced training as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists to order and administer anesthesia pre-operatively, perioperatively and postoperatively.

Career in nursing is not only financially stable but prestigious too. This field has a lot to offer as there is more number of jobs along with security as compared to other healthcare occupation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the demand for nurses will go on increasing with time as the number of healthcare units are increasing globally.

Night shift nurses are a special breed. There are a few nurses who work nights, but they're only doing it because they have to. There's another kind that love working nights. These nurses are night owls by nature, and it doesn't bother them to be up all night, in fact, they prefer it to working days.

If there's anything I hate more than call lights in nursing, I would have to say that IV pumps would rank right up there. If I met one in a dark alley I don't think I could be responsible for what I would do to it.

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